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"Represents a major advance over previous publications.... Students will find this volume especially useful as an introduction to the primary sources, terminology, and dominant themes in the history of chanoyu." --Journal of Japanese Studies "Tea in Japan illuminates in depth and detail chanoyu's cultural connections and evolution from the early Kamakura period... It is the quality of seeing the familiar and not so familiar elements of tea emerge as a dynamic saga of human invention and cultural intervention that makes this book exhilarating and the details that the authors provide that make these essays fascinating." --Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese

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Product Description: Teachers and students of introductory courses on Japan, as well as general readers, are her provided with a detailed outline of Japanese civilization from earliest times to the present. Major political, social, religious, intellectual, economic, and artistic developments are summarized...read more